Union Minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, on April 24 inaugurated the NTCPWC-Discovery Campus of Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) in the presence of Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, faculty and other officials. ‘Discovery Campus’ is the 163-acre campus of IIT Madras, located at Thaiyur, about 36 km from the main campus at Guindy. It hosts state-of-the-art standalone Research Centres with large …

Higher Education and research are key to an enhanced trade partnership between the U.K. and India and is expected to pave the way for a future UK-India free trade agreement. This emerged after the British Prime-Minister Boris Johnson met Prime-Minister Narendra Modi virtually on May 4, after the U.K. prime-minister was forced to cancel his planned visit to Delhi in …

IIIT-Delhi, in collaboration with Delhi Knowledge Development Foundation (DKDF) is establishing a ‘Centre of Sustainable Mobility’ as a Centre of Excellence at the Institute. The new research centre will focus on solving the problem of urban transportation in Delhi. The Centre of Sustainable Mobility, through its research focus, will not only enhance public transit, but will also save lives by …

Shiv Nadar University Chennai, on Mar 3 announced the appointment of Prof. Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya as the University’s Founding Vice Chancellor. Prof. Bhattacharyya is a widely acclaimed academician and was previously the Director (officiating) at IIT Kharagpur. In a career spanning over three decades, Prof. Bhattacharyya has demonstrated outstanding scholarship in his field, rigor for academic excellence and support for …

Funded by DST, the gel is expected to be ready in nine months Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering (DBB), IIT Bombay is working on project for capturing and inactivation of novel corona virus, the causative agent of COVID-19 through a nasal gel. Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), is …

6 Cs: – Collaboration- Communication- Creativity- Cultural Competencies- Critical Thinking – Complex Problem Solving besides digital fluency, will be the defining skills– the new superlative skills The Innovation Superclusters Initiative of Canada introduced in 2017 to create Canada’s most promising five superclusters at scale to create jobs, boost export economy and increase Canada’s GDP by more than $ 50 billion …